HueComb

Satin Cream White

#fdf3d5

A yellow that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#fdf3d5

RGB

253, 243, 213

OKLCh

96.4% 0.041 91.7°

CIELAB (D50)

96.1, -0.1, 15.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 61 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • It uses 83% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -100.1. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
  • Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 11.2 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.11:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.96:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.96:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7f765c is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#fdf3d5

protanopia

#f4f4d5 · ΔE00 4.5

deuteranopia

#f6f6d5 · ΔE00 4.6

tritanopia

#f8f8ab · ΔE00 11.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAndover Cream at ΔE00 0.68: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.